33 (A)Sell your possessions and give to charity; make yourselves money belts that do not wear out, (B)an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near nor does a moth destroy.

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And I say to you, (A)make friends for yourselves by means of the [a](B)wealth of unrighteousness, so that when it [b]is all gone, (C)they will receive you into the eternal dwellings.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 16:9 Gr mamonas, for Aramaic mamon (mammon); i.e., wealth, or money
  2. Luke 16:9 Or fails

45 and they (A)would sell their property and possessions and share them with all, to the extent that anyone had need.

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34 For there was not a needy person among them, for all who were owners of land or houses (A)would sell them and bring the [a]proceeds of the sales 35 and (B)lay them at the apostles’ feet, and they would be (C)distributed to each to the extent that any had need.

36 Now Joseph, a Levite of (D)Cyprian birth, who was also called (E)Barnabas by the apostles (which translated means Son of [b](F)Encouragement), 37 [c]owned a tract of land. So he sold it, and brought the money and (G)laid it at the apostles’ feet.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 4:34 Lit the prices of the things being sold
  2. Acts 4:36 Or Exhortation; or Consolation
  3. Acts 4:37 Lit a tract...belonging to him, he sold...

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